* actually because of the time I'm writing this it's actually more like "bedtime"

We did quite a bit today... We...

• mowed the front lawn and backyard
• swapped out the light switch cover plates in the bathrooms and our bedroom
• sorted through all the extra hardware (screws, nails, etc) in our computer tech toolbox that accidentally became an "all purpose" toolbox catch-all
• put all of that extra hardware into the appropriate drawers of my dad's plano
• took apart my glasses and deep cleaned them (they were disgusting)
• found a spot for the Plano to go and still be accessible

This might not sound like a lot to you, but as someone with chronic fatigue issues this is a lot for me. I am going to pay for this tomorrow! Luckily my to do list for tomorrow is just

• take a shower
• do laundry and
• fold laundry

and even then I might not be able to do all of that... Seeing as we have to do two loads again... Yeah. Thinking about it has me exhausted.

"Why not just continue to do one load?"
Because it ends up being so large it's a pain to dry and...we have to have a completely separate load of just underwear because for our regular load we use those Unstoppables scent bead things you throw in the wash with your clothing and Aleks decided he didn't want to split things up anymore (this was until we discovered the problem I'm about to talk about and the whole "drying takes three or four cycles") so everything went in as one...and he used the scented beads.

well. my skin can be very, very sensitive on the best of days! And like. at first I was okay? Until I wasn't. I started itching so bad in some VERY sensitive places that my skin was rubbed raw. Now I have eczema and I get flare ups in some really awful places at times so I thought that's what this was. But I've never had it this bad. Sometimes when your pH level is off things are itchy and horrible but it's never been this bad.

So we have underwear from before he switched over to just one load of everything... Iiiiit's the scented beads lol it could be the scent, it could be dyes, it could be anything. So yeah. Two loads now. Which is a lot sometimes. So we might have to do one load tomorrow/later (since it's after midnight) and then one load the next day. I hate being like this and the fact that it didn't used to be this bad but then I got Covid and that fucked me up bad so... Yeah. I have to use mobility aids at times now, which I also hate because then I have to remember to bring them and it's just...a mess.

If I do only one load of laundry tomorrow then so be it I guess idk! idk.

Whilst watching a storm chaser livestream on Youtube, I took a nap before dinner, because I was so tired I couldn't even keep my eyes open.

Going down to Port Jervis sucks the energy from me. The drive down is long no matter what way we take, though we've found a better route down that bypasses PA completely (I-86/NY-17 all the way down to exit 104, then NY-17B, then NY-42 aaaaaall the way into Port Jervis) that is only a few minutes longer, maybe. And we get to go through areas of NYS that we wouldn't normally (and lose all cell signal upon entering Orange County from Sullivan County, because that's the sticks, I guess, of Orange County). It's a bit more direct that way and it avoids the Mid-Delaware Bridge (they're doing shit with it so traffic would be a nightmare).

There was no one parked on the street. I don't think anyone was home at #3 or #7 (the houses on either side). The house looks virtually the same as it always does. There were two pieces of mail in the mailbox, both addressed to my wife lol. One was a credit card offer (junk mail basically) and the other was from Bon Secours/Westchester Medical, notifying her that our doctor was leaving the WMC medical group and all of our medical shit would be transferred to the doctor they'd listed, or whatever one we opted for if we didn't want that one. Which we wouldn't, because we try to avoid male doctors when we can, and also, we no longer live in the area, so it doesn't matter. Up here we can choose between Guthrie Clinic and Arnot Health. Down there...you're stuck with Westchester Medical. We would've been fucked.

Luckily we're not, because we no longer live down there. We were on the "Just Visiting" side of the JAIL space on a Monopoly board.

So in we went. Reluctantly.

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